Phuket 2014

Nanai Road, Patong is a home from home. This year we arrived much later than usual on 1 April but luckily for us the rains were late, so we had plenty of good, hot weather. In fact, there was a drought on, which is not so nice and all the hotels, restaurants and other businesses were having to have water trucked in. It is just another sign that Phuket and especially Patong have been over developed and the infrastructure just can't always cope. We still love it!
A Typical Day
11am Beach bed
1pm Lunch on the beach
2pm Back to beach bed
4pm Massage and maybe a bit of shopping
6pm Sunset drinks
7pm Dinner
830pm Drinks at Black Horse to watch the passing parade on Bangla Rd
10pm Rasta music at Koh Bamboo Bar
12pm Tums Bar for rock music
230am Macdonalds for Neil
3am Bed
Favourite Restaurants
Fuji for Japanese
Song Pee Nong, Savoy or Pan Yaah for Thai
Da No 1 or Banzaan Market for Seafood
Korean BBQ
Pak Lak for Thai BBQ
Favourite Sunset Spots
No Name on the rocks
Sole Mio Bar, previously Barefoot
Pan Yaah
Catch at Surin
Favourite massages
Cool Massage - Beach Road, 1 hour foot massage with free wi-fi for ZAR70
Good Na Massage - Nanai Road, best ever and opposite our guest house
Favourite Beaches
Laem Sing
Paradise
Racha Island
Favourite Favourites
Ka Jok See for a night to remember
Aussie Bar for rugby
There are always friends coming to Phuket. We saw the Pitchers, Pitts and Lorraine,Simon and Geoff, Sandra and Jurgen and Dave. Tommy and Mandy arrived in time for Song Kran. We spent 3 nights on Racha Island with them and went diving. They left Patong on Monday 21st and Megan, Percy, Matthew, Ashley, Kieran and Maya arrived. We showed them all our favourites and a lot more in the 4 days before we left for Bangkok. We still always talk about living in Thailand, but too much Patong may just be the end of you and anywhere else will just be too boring in comparison.